Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-05

A Bismarck correspondent to the st.
Paul Globe submits the following cut
ting comment on the methods adopted
by Dakota legislators for the further
ance of sectional schemes:
"An old settler told me to-day that
during all his experience among the
politicians of Dakota he had never be-
fore seen so much trading and so much
bargaining going OF among the differ
ent factions as is going on during the
present session of the legislature and
to one who is on the inside and is able
to see the deals that are going on, it
seems that the affirmation Of the old
settler cannot be otherwise than true,
for it is evident that almost every mem
Der OF the lower house has come here
with one or more bills in his pocket
that will require one or more combina-
tons to put them through. Territorial
Auditor Caldwell hit the nail pretty
nearly on the head the other day when
he came into the representative cham
Der with a slip Of paper In his hand,
and, when asked what it meant, he re-
piled that it was a sample Of the badge
that he war going to order for the mem
bers of the house to wear. On the slip
Of paper were the words: "Jobbers'
Association" Politics cut no figure
whatever in the legislature; it is simply
o "a between sections. There are, l
think, but eleven open-faced democrats
in the house, the rest being republicans,
and yet when a few nights ago, Martin
Grigsby, a political leader in the South,
called a meeting for the purpose OF or
ganizing the republicans there were only
four who responded to the call and Mr..
Grigsby gave up In diggust. 1t will be
impossible to organize permanently or
to put UP any permanent combinations,
but oil along the line Of work until the
last week Of the session there will be
combinations made and agreements en-
tered into between factions only to be
shattered when their object is attained
and when the legislature finally ad-
journs there will be the old feudal feel.
ing between the North and South, East
and West and Central Dakota that ex-
listed the day before the two houses
were organized. The schemes for shift
ing the United States and territorial
supreme courts and the large number OF
appropriations asked for by representa-
tives from different sections have caused
all this auctioneering and trading, and
the North is the fountain Of salvation
toward which they all look, aad if the
south did bring a majority into the
lower house, and if there is every pros
pect that the south will be in the major
ity when the legislature adjourns, the
north reasonably congratulates herself
on being o top at the present time,
and can remain on top SO long as she
plays her cards cool, calm and collected
way. In making her requests she must
be exceedingly circumspect the South
will probably grant her a reasonable
appropriation or request, but it is hardly
to be hoped that her request for nm APP
preparation for the completion of the
capitol would be granted under the
strongest combination that could be put
mp, for the south is bitterly opposed to
It. Any Southern representative who
goes on record as having voted for such
an appropriation might as we'll dig his
grave and hang himself right here, for
his constituents would not tolerate it.
This ! am told by fair-minded represen-
tatives from the less bitter districts of
the south. 1t is given out that the
south is perfectly willing hat Bismarck
should have the capitol, but they will
never vote q cent to making it more
than it is, and the impression caught
from conversation with citizens here
who contributed towards the construc-
tion of the capitol is, that they would
willingly consent to its removal if they
could get 20 per cent of the amour they
invested in it,"
American Industry.
At the present time the American